True. Nationalism, however...Lots of concepts could be seen as artificial. That doesn't necessarily make them without worth.
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True. Nationalism, however...Lots of concepts could be seen as artificial. That doesn't necessarily make them without worth.
I hate the Communist Chinese for what they are doing to displace the Tibetan people
As for the 20th Century, and now the 21st, central governments have been the greatest mass murderers of all centuries before.
I would rather have the Dalai Lama
To hell with the new British East India Company called the EU run from Brussels.
That is exactly what I was talking about earlier in the thread. You accuse someone else of posting nonsense, and then you keep posting this rubbish.The socialists are in an un-holy alliance with the Radical Jihadists. And with the NAZIs.
No, I'm calling out your accusing another poster of posting nonsense, yet you persist in your own nonsense of that socialists, radical Muslims, and Nazis are all working together, although the Nazis being Christian and radical Muslims being Muslims would be enemies against each other, and socialism is a broad term with left-wing socialists being opposed to both radical Muslims and Nazis. You keep going on about that, but it's not a sound or valid conclusion.Quote "you keep posting this rubbish"
Boy, how unrubbish of a counter. I bet you say that a lot? You are trolling by personal attacks instead of general statements.
Socialism sucks, they are the closes thing to National Socialism
That's actually not correct. Nazism isn't Christian and the leadership of the party wasn't Christian. Most of them hated Christianity. They tried to make it appear like they were getting along with the churches, but that was just a pragmatic move and they were actually restricting and persecuting Christian groups, including Catholics. They planned to marginalize the churches into insignificance.although the Nazis being Christian and radical Muslims being Muslims would be enemies against each other,
No, it's simply pointing out reality to you, and you are spewing hatred with every one of your posts. I'm trying to get you to stop and think, but that appears to be futile? Now you're veering into racism against mixed people and black people with your "Obama has "racial identity conflicts" and "Pocahontas" talk.Quote - "I made the Nazi reference because the rhetoric you're spouting sure sounds fascistic to me"
Nonsense, you are calling me (and others) a Nazi and it is personal because it is an attempt to foment hate against others.
As for the Jewish people, socialism has mass murdered them. As for liberal jews, they have been given so much support for decades by people like me only to see the same Liberals betray democracy and align with fascism and global elites themself. So it reaches a point where folks say, fine, then to hell with them.
As typical, nonsense, the far left engages in specific personal attacks because they cannot argue the general issues broadly. Then they call any side taken on genral issue statements which are pointed out as nonsense as personal attacks which they are not. The far left is the greatest danger to free speech as well as to science.
Obama and Hillary violated the civil rights of the video maker which in yet another lie to cover for their failures and blatant maleficence and gun running in Libya and Benghazi during a re-election campaign by lies and blaming an internet video that no one in Libya ever saw, Hillary lied as people died and were murdered by the very weapons Hillary was running to the "rebels" who are worse than Gaddafi whuse last name is constantly spelled every which way just as the Obamanist switch words around like Al Queda in Iraq and Syria to ISIS to IS to Daesh to whatever words used by the ilk of Kerry to try and confuse Americans as one from another or what is even being talked about, really just another way to try and cover up the entire picture while hoping the next news cycle will bury what just happened.
How did I personally attack you? I didn't. I attacked you constant rambling that Socialists are working with radical Muslims and Nazis. There is no connection. You might as well be saying that Scientists are working with Young Earth Creationists to take over public education - it makes just as much sense to say that and is equally invalid of a statement.As typical, nonsense, the far left engages in specific personal attacks because they cannot argue the general issues broadly.
Quote - "I made the Nazi reference because the rhetoric you're spouting sure sounds fascistic to me"
Nonsense, you are calling me (and others) a Nazi and it is personal because it is an attempt to foment hate against others.
As for the Jewish people, socialism has mass murdered them. As for liberal jews, they have been given so much support for decades by people like me only to see the same Liberals betray democracy and align with fascism and global elites themself. So it reaches a point where folks say, fine, then to hell with them.
I hate the Tibet argument for many reasons, here are a few of them.
- Tibet was an Theocratic Absolute Monarchy
- Actual slavery done by those in power
- Tibet used to be a Tributary of the Chinese Dynasties for centuries and later was part of China de jure
- Tibet along with all the other Warlords declared its "independence" during the Warlord era
There was literally nothing different from Tibet to all the other Warlord areas except that it was far too difficult to reinstate state control (Republic of China) over it.
After the Civil war the Communists did what the "Republicans" simply couldn't and reinstated Chinese control over Tibet. Though they even gave it Autonomy and the Dalai Lama became member of the party and "parliament".
Want to make it a democratic country without anything Tibet had in its brief appearance on the maps of the 20th century? Cool. Just don't base the claim of it on those years of independence in the 20th century, they are just not a good example.
National Socialism is socialism. As far as the anti-Semitic aspect of the National Socialist German Workers Party, the propaganda of "the dirty capitalist Jew" is a common theme that attracted Hitler to the Workers Party and was a theme not only found in Germany.
Let us go to Russia. Recently a rally by a group called the Traditionalist Worker Party made the news here in California made the news after they were violently attacked by far leftist groups including a Berkeley teacher who has engaged in violent acts in the past and actually should probably be investigated by the FBI for likely other violent plots and terrorist agenda, Radical Islamists, Black Lives Matter and a group that want California to become part of Mexico, and some other domestic terrorists types, suddenly they approached with knives and a handgun and assaulted those who had a permit to gather and speak, the extremist "demonstrators" who attacked those who had peacefully assembled also attacked the police who tried to protect the free speech and right to assemble of the rally and who had a permit to do so.
Now I do not support this group the TWP. However, in context of this discussion, the members of this Worker Party were called a Neo-Nazi group in headlines and the press. But there is another more accurate perspective to the origins of this group which was also known in the past as the Orthodox Traditionalists and other monikers and which some of their literature is in Russian.
The Orthodox part of this has to do with the Eastern Orthodox religion of Russia and Greece and other areas including Serbians. Their symbol is very much from the communist genre and includes a farmers pitchfork inside a gear. They have many books praising Putin of Russia. In fact, there is evidence the Russian government has approved this group if not even funded it.
This group is anti-Jewish. But of the Russian genre, less the German ideation. But this group also hates the "capitalist Jew". Pogroms against Jews in Russia goes way back. This, like other Worker Party genres, are pro-worker, pro-labor, anti-capitalist.
This group may support the Orthodox Church but actually have little interest in religion and a lot of interest in its social elitism, a type of Russian genre that are more Neo-Communist. They are also socialists.
The Baath Party in the Arab world which in the early days fostered politicized Islam, is the socialism of the ME. The Baathists are socialists. And most if not all, are anti-Jewish and Islamists. Actually most of the Baathiats were about their own power and autocracy who used Islam and saw Islam as autocratic but their politics was socialism.
Socialism is a modern idreation which in it's rather short history has managed to mass murder many. Getting right duwn to it, it is simply a militaristic theme in art and words and then action to Spartanize people into collective murder of others used as scapegoats and central governnment. It is a generalization of course, nothing is 100 percent.
The funny thing is, socialists of one group tend to typically attack other socialists of a different group in violent attacks. But so do criminal gangs, even though each gang has essentiallly the same agenda.
As for Nationalism, not all are good. But it is a moniker now for the anti-establishment movement and it is world wide. We are now living in dangerous times, but this thing is a form of a tiger who has had its tail pulled too many times. It is also an adventure for many, a reason to have fun. They will hit back, and hard. That might be later. Or sooner.
But everything is a generalization.
I am NOT saying Nationalism as today is Jesus or goodness. But it is part of nature. It wasn't created by itself. In fact, those who hate them in large part created it.
Evita. An Eva Peron is coming and it sure the hell isn't Hillary Clinton. Watch. And she will be just as beautiful.
Quote- "Doesn't making Britain great again involve making India a little on the subservient side?" -
Islamic extremists want and have enslaved Hindus in India in such numbers it makes the old British Empire pale in comparison. Radical Jihadists are also slave owners. A strong England will help defeat the Radical Jihadists along with a strong India. Some obviously don't like that.
I am NOT saying Nationalism as today is Jesus or goodness. But it is part of nature. It wasn't created by itself. In fact, those who hate them in large part created it.
Being Vietnamese, I'll just give you my thoughts. It (socialism) was needed for our independence from the French, but in hindsight both from US and Vietnamese standpoint, we would have had better results much like South Korea, not through communism but through democracy/capitalism.I'm curious...what is your view of the various Indo-Chinese conflicts in the post WW2 period, particularly those involving Vietnam?